Little Acorns Fostering expanding its workforce to cope with unprecedented demand for

placements

Little Acorns Fostering, one of the UK’s fastest-growing foster care agencies, is expanding its

workforce to cope with unprecedented demand for placements. The agency is hiring more

qualified and appropriately experienced social workers to help train and support foster carers and

achieve long-term stable placements for children in care.

Little Acorns Fostering, one of the UK’s fastest-growing foster care agencies, is expanding its

workforce to cope with unprecedented demand for placements. The new staff will enable the

agency to deliver its services on an even greater level than ever before, taking care of everything

from foster carer training, support, assessing fostering allowance and liaising with local authorities.

The new team members will join the family-run business which currently boasts over 100 years’ of

combined experience across Social Work, Residential Care, Judiciary and Fostering Services.

The absoluteobjective of Little Acorns Fostering is to offer ‘best in class’ support to their fostering

families living in the region of Haverhill in Suffolk, Essex, Herts, Cambs and Norfolk to enable them to

achieve long term, stable placements and the best possible outcomes for the children in their

care.Little Acorns Fostering aims to continue to meet its goals by expanding its workforce to meet

the increasing need for its services.

“We are pleased to announce that we are expanding our services to allow us to help more foster

carers and more children in our region and throughout the UK,” stated Cheryl Jillions, Registered

Manager at Little Acorns Fostering, “All of our team are confident that this new influx of qualified

and experienced staff will help us reach our goals of effectively helping as many children in care as

we possibly can.”

Little Acorns Fostering currently provides full support and assistance to anyone wishing to become a

foster carer, from providing initial information and beginning the assessment process to allocating an

appropriate fostering allowance and delivering ongoing support. Some of the resources available

from Little Acorns Fostering include: support groups for children in care facilitated by Social Work

qualified service users, external training courses for carers, crisis intervention support, Cognitive

Behavioural Therapy work, Secure Base attachment implementation, fun and activity days, a drop in

centre for carers and children, emergency respite facilities and many, many more.

Little Acorns Fostering advises all potential foster carers that the approval process generally takes

between 4 and 6 months. The agency also provides a generous fostering allowance that is

considerably more than the Government recommended allowance to ensure that Little Acorns

Fostering carers have everything they need to deliver the safe and nurturing environment that all

children deserve. The agency invites anyone interested in knowingmore about becoming a foster

career to get in touch with the friendly, qualified and experiencedLittle Acorns Fostering team by

telephone or email for more detailed information, expert advice and to have any and all questions

about fostering answered.

About Little Acorns Fostering: Little Acorns Fostering is a UK based foster care agency with many

years’ experience in social work, residential care, judicial and fostering services. A family run

business, Little Acorns Fostering strives to offer best in class services to children who enter the care

system and fostering families who are committed to nurturing and caring for some of the most

damaged children. The team at Little Acorns is committed to using their combined knowledge and

skills for the recruitment, training and support of foster carers and to achieve long term, stable

placements for children in care. Founded in 2013, Little Acorns Fostering is proud to have achieved a

‘Good’ rating in its most recent Ofsted inspection. To find out more about their services, please visit:

http://www.littleacornsfostering.com